It is designed to “provide insight into how MA and Part D organizations can best prepare for a CMS performance audit.”

Kathleen Flannery, deputy director, Division of Analysis, Policy, and Strategy, Medicare Parts C & D Oversight and Enforcement Group, will tackle CMS's audit strategy and program oversight during a morning session. Lorelei Piantedosi, Division of Analysis, Policy, and Strategy, MOEG, will deliver a session on best practices in program audits. The director of the Division of Audit Operations at MOEG also will walk participants through a mock audit and deliver a session on preparing for an audit.

Other sessions include an update on CMS Enforcement Actions and Investing in Your Compliance Program.

Participants can attend via webcast or in person at CMS headquarters in Baltimore. Lunch can be pre-ordered if requests are made by June 18. For more information, click here.

Some of the nation's top researchers, along with a pair of U.S. Senators, will introduce the Alzheimer's Association's new dementia care practice recommendations the morning of Feb. 14 at a Washington, D.C., event